title: Executives learn (sometimes the hard way) how to handle public referendums.
abstract: The number of public referendums held on health care issues are increasing, And voters may have more to say about health care funding issues on a state and local level in the future, say experts. Health care executives are learning--sometimes the hard way--how to participate in campaigns and how to follow up with state legislatures to ensure that the vote is correctly interpreted in the rulemaking phase.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003256:Community Participation; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006291:Health Policy; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000191:economics; D011057:Politics; D012954:Societies, Hospital; D013219:State Government; D014861:Washington